Chapter 285: The Power of Artillery
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After a lot of hard work, I finally reached 200 meters away from the city wall.
Li Kui roared loudly: "Giant crossbow, shoot arrows."
Wow, dozens of crossbow arrows flew away, and dozens of enemy troops were taken away one after another, but after all, the number was small and could not play a good slowing role.
Chao Gai was unmoved at all. The Yizhou Da Iron Mine brought a hundred secret weapons with mules a few days ago, and Chao Gai happened to test the power.
On the top of the city wall, two hundred elite soldiers from Liu Tang lifted the tarpaulin, revealing the dark iron pier.
This is actually a small cannon. This cannon can have a caliber of thirty millimeters, and it is only sixty or seventy centimeters long, and the weight is only seventy or eighty kilograms.
That's right, this is a small cannon developed by Chao Gai, called the Crouching Tiger Cannon. It weighs only 70 kilograms and is very convenient to carry. Two people are in a group, they can carry it quickly and move.
Although the creeping tiger cannon is small, it is not bad at all. It can beat several taels of iron sand to more than 150 meters at once, and it will be a piece of it.
After Liu Tang's soldiers assembled cannons, they only trained in nearby mountains three times. After all, cannon medicine is relatively precious and cannot be wasted.
As the enemy approached, Liu Tang shouted loudly: "Immediately."
The soldiers quickly lit the leads with torches, booming, booming, booming, loud bang, thick smoke, shocking the small city walls.
The entire city wall was revived, and the strong men who were preparing for war in the city wall were even frightened and fell to the ground.
Looking at the enemy troops in charge, they were like wheat blown down by the strong wind, falling down in pieces.
Liu Tang was surprised. This was too amazing. He fell down in pieces.
The enemy troops in the charge were immediately frightened. They were not afraid of death, but they were afraid of such strange weapons and didn't even know anything. It was simply incredible to fall in such a large piece.
The entire team retreated like a tide, and no matter how the military and legal team shot arrows or cuts, the soldiers had only one idea, which was to escape from this terrible battlefield as soon as possible.
Tian Ding rubbed his eyes incredibly: "How could this happen? Why did it happen? He was defeated before he could go up. This is their magic trick, and he can only be used once, so don't be afraid."
Tian Ding waved the flag and transferred another reserve team of five thousand people to rush forward.
The five thousand people were also afraid, but they had to charge, holding shields and carrying cloud ladders and shouting loudly, launching the charge again.
The road to charge this time was still very brisk, after all, the group of people just used their bodies to step out the pit for them.
Soon, the city wall was only more than 100 meters away. It was almost time to start construction and shoot arrows to attack the officers and soldiers on the city wall. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief because there were few soldiers in Qinzhou, which is what everyone knows. Just rush forward and you can achieve a huge victory.
But it was obvious that their knowledge of artillery was completely zero. Just as everyone was thinking about how to attack the city, Liu Tang's scream suddenly came: "Prepare, light the fire."
The terrifying torch was raised again, followed by a loud noise that shook the sky and the earth. With a buzzing sound, countless iron sand and locusts flew over.
It turns out that although the fire rate of the artillery is slow, it is within the time of retreating and advancing.
Because the formation is relatively scattered, there are still very few casualties, but everyone is already frightened and has no desire to fight anymore. They throw down the ladder and turn around and leave.
It came slowly, escaped quickly, and ran away in a flash.
Tian Ding had no choice but to shake his head and ordered: "Retreat, you can't fight any more."
The army whimpered and heard the horn of retreat.
The city gate opened and Pang Wanchun led the team to attack, followed the enemy from afar, shooting arrows at the enemy from time to time.
Tian Ding ordered the cavalry to cover the tail of the team, and the large army slowly retreated. The 20,000 troops failed to touch the city wall and turned into 15,000, and regretted not listening to Tian Biao's words.
The brigade withdrew and slowly headed north.
Pang Wanchun had few soldiers and did not dare to pursue him too closely. He could only be regarded as watching the enemy retreat slowly.
Deng Fei touched his big head on the city wall: "What's the situation? We haven't opened fire yet."
Liu Tang laughed: "With our crouching tiger cannon, what's the matter without your long musket."
Chao Gai arranged: "The enemy retreated, hid the crouching tiger cannons, and took out the spare ones."
"Yes, brother, don't worry, I'll make arrangements now."
Liu Tang led his troops to wrap the creeping tiger cannons in tarpaulin, and then the soldiers replaced them with wooden cannons that dug out tree trunks. The wooden cannons were used in the Song Dynasty, but the effect was far less than that of iron cannons.
The group worked hard for a long time and replaced the iron cannon with a wooden cannon.
In the evening, Pang Wanchun took back his troops.
"Brother, they have withdrawn and have traveled north for forty miles to camp."
Chao Gai nodded: "Okay, pay attention at any time, don't be careless. There are still 20,000 soldiers and Tian Biao together. Although they are not strong in combat, there are many soldiers and horses. If they really rush up, they will not be easy to deal with."
"yes."
In fact, today I was afraid of fighting both wolves, and Chao Gai was still very worried. If the enemy was not frightened by artillery, once the enemy climbed the city wall, that war would be completely inevitable.
Fortunately, these soldiers had never seen artillery before. When they heard the loud noise, they were frightened when they saw the thick smoke. They dared not attack hard and retreated twice.
In fact, artillery has a long loading time. If these people understand this, they will attack desperately. There are too few defenders in the city and may not be able to withstand the attack.
Five days later, Tian Biao and Tian Ding retreated their main force into the mountains, leaving only three thousand cavalry circling around Weisheng, but the effect was very poor.
The combat effectiveness of the Western cavalry far exceeded that of Tian Biao's army. The three thousand cavalrymen in Tian Biao were discounted in several battles, less than two thousand people.
Tian Biao shook his head bitterly: "The difference is too far. Our cavalry is not a little worse than the Western Army. Run away quickly, if you don't run, you will be over."
Tian Ding no longer dared to show off his power and sighed: "It's not good to go out, and it's best to leave."
The two of them made up their minds this time and were still very good at running away. They went north and burned and killed the village when there was insufficient food and grass. They no longer had the character of the rebel army.
At this time, the fierce battle of Weisheng was coming to an end. Although Tian Hu's army was huge in number, it could not withstand the Western Army's professionalism.
There were many siege equipment. After three days of tentative siege, the Western Army finally launched a general attack. At noon that day, 30,000 infantrymen rushed to the car, and the goose car began to attack fiercely. After paying the price of thousands of people, they finally attacked the city.
Tong Guan announced that only 30% of the property obtained after entering the city must be paid, and the rest must be kept by themselves.
As soon as the news was announced, it was in full swing.
Chapter completed!